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After growing up on the beautiful west coast of Scotland co-founders Zander Macgregor and Allan Nairn moved to Glasgow for university.

With a background in business and engineering, respectively, Wester Spirit Co. was, alongside a huge interest in rum, born out of a passion for small batch craft spirits, the distilling process and the rich origins of Glasgow.

Zander told Glasgow Live: "We can't wait to open in Glasgow. We have been distilling for the past year at Strathearn in Perth and now we are looking forward to expanding everything we can do to creative something special.

"The idea started in 2017 and it just grew after researching and learning about it. Basing the distillery in Glasgow is important to us, and with the city's sugar boom past the name comes from the Wester sugar house which was located in Candelriggs."

Wester Spirit Co

Opening this November, the Meadow Road premises will house an innovative rum distillery combining the latest technology with the timelessness of a quality rum.

Wester Spirit Co. steps away from conventional copper stills into the multi-faceted future of stainless steel. The Still, made in Poland, is equipped with fully programmable technology to increase the efficiency of the distilling process and has the option of manual control to allow changes to the smallest details in the flavour profile.

Combined, this helps to create a spirit hand-crafted with intuition, expertise and enhanced flavour with guaranteed consistency.